WHAT IS JFK? Our newest entries.

Take a look at the first entries in our photo contest! Comment on the ones you like.... or don't like. Better yet, take some pictures of your own and send them to goffmanteacher@gmail.com. Just include your name, your school, your grade, and one sentence or so telling why this picture, for you, best answers the question What is JFK?

Entry #1: 

Alham Mughrabi, SET 12th-- This is a photo taken during a motivational speech given to the students of SET. Even though many people focus on the negative things that happen at JFK, there is a lot of positive that happens here.

Entry #2

Angelica Peralta, SET 12th--

This photo represents JFK because it shows how pretty the surroundings are around the school.

Entry #3

Genesis Encarnacion, SET 12th-- This is a photo of the park behind the school. It represents JFK because the park is a place where students have gym when it is nice 

and where many students hang out.

Entry #4

Justin Melendez, SET 12th-- These three daffodils were on the hill behind the school. We saw them when my journalism class went outside to take pictures. It was cool that nobody picked them.

This is representative of JFK because, for the most part, the students are good people.

LGBT RIGHTS

by Chris Reyes, Editor

Editor's Note: Do you have an opinion on this issue? Post your ideas here in a comment.

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY. YOU TELL OUR STORY.

SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL!!!

Every year the School of Education and Training at JFK celebrates the life and works of the greatest writer in the English language, William Shakespeare. As in years past, there will be a professional production of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Also as in years past, we will have a birthday party for the Bard of Avon, featuring student and faculty creativity of all kinds, and great refreshments, too. If you have been to one of these events in the past you know it is the hottest ticket in town. Tickets are free... but there is a catch. Read on and find out everything you need to know.

CALLING ALL POETS

April, we hope you know, is NATIONAL POETRY MONTH. What are your plans? How do you celebrate poetry in your life? Do you read your favorite poets? Do you HAVE a favorite poet or poem?
Do you WRITE poetry yourself? Would you like to see it published?
If YOU are a poet, submit one of your poems by email to goffmanteacher@gmail.com. Put POEM FOR BLOG in the subject line, and be sure to sign your name, plus your grade. We will be happy to publish student poetry this month -- and any month.
Here is a favorite poem by Robert Frost to get you started.

The Road Not TakenRobert Frost (1920) 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.